Apple Sprouts New Seed of Mac OS X 10.4.9

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 16th Jan 2007 13:10 UTC, submitted by SK8T

You may have missed it with all the news coming out of last week's Macworld Expo, but Apple recently distributed a new pre-released build of Mac OS X 10.4.9 to its developer community. The latest is just the second build of the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system update to make its way outside the company's walls since build 8P2111 was released to developers in late December. Since build 8P2111, which included numerous fixes for wireless and sync technologies, Apple has reportedly shifted the focus of Mac OS X 10.4.9 to some lower-level technology improvements.

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I'm surprised

by halfmanhalfamazing on Tue 16th Jan 2007 14:49 UTC

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2005-07-23

That apple didn't announce this at macworld.

Had they done that at least one thing out of macworld would've actually involved macs directly.

Sure, ipods, iphones, and appletv's are designed as surrogate products to the mac, but there wasn't any announcements for the mac directly, that I saw. No new processors, no new product lines, no larger screens on imacs, not even the new 10.4.9.

They even erased 'computer' from their name.

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RE: I'm surprised

by Yoda on Tue 16th Jan 2007 15:38 UTC in reply to "I'm surprised"

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2006-05-30

Have patience, my friend, those things also will be updated ;-)

also on the wishlist: more info on Leopard

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cool

by SK8T on Tue 16th Jan 2007 16:16 UTC

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2006-06-01

wow that will be a great release! I hope to see some speedups, cleanups and hopefully no more safari crashes!

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safari

by sig33kde on Tue 16th Jan 2007 18:31 UTC

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2006-04-04

*paying to the house of jobs* PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fix the safari crashes ...

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RE: safari

by TownDrunk on Tue 16th Jan 2007 19:45 UTC in reply to "safari"

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2005-11-28

Just wondering... when Safari crashes do you guys send the error report to Apple? I have been doing this in hopes that these issues get fixed and wondered if I was the only one doing this.

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RE[2]: safari

by henrikmk on Tue 16th Jan 2007 20:01 UTC in reply to "RE: safari"

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2005-07-10

Every time an Apple application crashes (which is very rare for me these days), I send a report. Whether they read them or not, I don't know, but it seems to me that a lot of early stability problems related to my crashes have gone away in later builds, so it may not be entirely futile. :-)

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RE[2]: safari

by jackeebleu on Wed 17th Jan 2007 01:06 UTC in reply to "safari"

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2006-01-26

either im lucky or just, well lucky, but i have never had Safari crash on me ever on 10.4.x, im currently on 10.4.8 and have had no issues whatsoever, 10.4 has proven one of the more reliable and fast builds for me since ive been using OS X, maybe its the type of porn you are looking at...the browser may not be able to handle it.

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RE[3]: safari

by Chicken Blood on Wed 17th Jan 2007 01:19 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: safari"

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2005-12-21

Is there a more 'stable' type of porn that you recommend?

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RE[3]: safari

by TownDrunk on Wed 17th Jan 2007 02:32 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: safari"

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2005-11-28

Spend some time surfing through Google Maps. After doing that for a bit with zooming in and out, you usually get a Safari crash.

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RE[4]: safari

by tyrione on Wed 17th Jan 2007 07:00 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: safari"

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2005-11-21

Submit a bug to Google for their Mac Group that handles Google Maps and see if they do anything that currently breaks or is non-compliant with their bounds checks.

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Fix the Kernel Panics!!!

by MacMan on Tue 16th Jan 2007 18:44 UTC